One of the things I am most passionate about is creating content explaining and teaching history. As a historian, I want to make sure that the content is accurate, while being interesting and fun.
During my time at school, I have been working with a museum in northern Ontario, organizing and preparing to film videos about various historical topics covered at that museum. To do those, I’ve used a few tools:
- Word: This is one of the programs I use the most. It helps me write the scripts based on the ideas I have for those videos. Over my years in school, I’ve used Word a lot, like when I had to create radio and television advertisements, and even many essays, just to name a few.
- Obsidian: This is another one of the tools I use the most when I am researching for possible videos. One of the main reasons I like this tool is that I can create multiple files and create something similar to hyperlinks within the documents to connect the different files with each other. For example, I am currently researching to create a series of videos for a museum where I am volunteering, and I’ve been using Obsidian to help me organize story ideas, instead of having one massive Word file on my computer, having to scroll through many pages to find that one specific video I am working on.
- Sticky notes, highlighters, and pencils: I absolutely love using sticky notes when I need to research in physical books. Those are one thing that I will always have on hand when researching or organizing story ideas. Other office supplies I will always have on hand when researching and organizing are highlighters, pens, and pencils. They are quite useful to add to the sticky notes what I need to find on the page in the book, for example.
This is a short list of the tools I often use, mostly when I am researching. There are a few other tools and programs I use when I am writing a script, but those are the main ones for the research aspect of creating videos and organizing my concepts.